Gordon Ramsay Slams Home Cooks' Meals On Twitter

Trending News: Gordon Ramsay Is Savaging Home Cooks' Meals On Twitter

Quick Take

Gordon Ramsay is a famous chef, best known for using "donkey" as an insult, yelling at people and making children cook for him. He got his start, naturally, in restaurants, earning himself multiple Michelin stars for excellence. Then he began a TV career, most notably on the British series Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares where he firmly (but kindly) helped struggling restaurants produce better food and run a tighter business.

But then he brought Kitchen Nightmares (and a new show, Hell's Kitchen) to the U.S., where he learned a new trick: f*ck being helpful, viewers will eat it up if you make would-be chefs feel like absolute shit. It's either awesome or difficult to watch, depending on your level of psychopathy.

Being the harsh critic that he is, Ramsay is the perfect person to speak truth to power when it comes a truly annoying movement: foodies on social media. For the past day or so, Ramsay has been crapping all over people foolish enough to tweet pictures of their food at him for his evaluation. These are screenshotted because twitter embeds get wonky with quote-tweets, but he's been doing this all day if you want to check for yourself.

You know what? Good. Foodies (or "home cooks," as the more industrious among them say) are terrible. Cooking is a good and valuable skill for several reasons, and cooking can even be enjoyable. But think, do we really need the "home" qualifier to describe "people who prepare food so that they do not have to eat it raw?" No, we don't, because never once is someone going to eat something of yours (or see a picture of it) and say "oh, that looks so good, are you a trained chef?" only for you to sheepishly respond "nope, just a home cook!"

Yeah, no shit. Would you describe yourself as a "home sleeper," or a "home shower-taker?" No, because those are not mundane things gussied by people hit so hard by the recession a decade ago that they literally turned self-sustenance into a hobby. If you come at Gordon Ramsay, who has made a living being good at cooking and then subsequently telling others that they are not, you deserve to get burned.

Yes, these people know what they're getting into. And no, it's probably not even really him running the twitter account, especially since this hot streak (and the accompanying media coverage) seems to coincide nicely with the launch of a $90 online cooking class of his. I don't care. Gordon Ramsay owning food dweebs on twitter is what's going to make America great again.